Strpci Train Massacre Victims Commemorated
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The action began symbolically at 3.48pm, when a train that was travelling from Belgrade to Bar in Montenegro was stopped by Bosnian Serb fighters at Strpci station, near the Serbian border.
Fighters led by Milan Lukic, the head of the Avengers paramilitary unit, forced 20 non-Serb passengers off the train, and later killed them and threw their bodies in the Drina River.
Lukic was sentenced by the Hague Tribunal to life imprisonment for wartime crimes in Visegrad, but not for the abductions in Strpci.
Two other men have been convicted of involvement in the crimes and the trial of ten more suspects is continuing in Sarajevo.
In March 2015, the Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor’s Office raised charges against five people over the Strpci crimes, but the court has not yet confirmed the indictment.
“The HLC, Women in Black and the Sandzak Committee for the Protection of Human Rights once again call upon the courts and the [Serbian] war crimes prosecutor to resolve the matter of confirming the indictment and to carry on with the proceedings,” the three groups that organised Tuesday’s commemoration said in a statement.
